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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2014
Mettler-toledo Safeline Ltd., Manchester, United Kingdom, GB;
Tna Australia Pty Limited, Sydney, New South Wales, AU;
Daren Butterworth, Manchester, GB;
Alfred Alexander Taylor, Sydney, AU;
Darren Ken Alchin, Sydney, AU;
METTLER-TOLEDO SAFELINE LTD., Manchester, GB;
TNA AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED, Sydney, AU;
Abstract
A metal detector () has a metallic enclosure () with entrance and exit apertures () whose cross-sectional areas differ from each other. Inside the enclosure is a coil system with a transmitter coil () and first and second receiver coils (). The apertures and the coil system enclose a detection zone () around a travel path on which objects under inspection move. The asymmetric detection zone has a variable cross-section along the travel path and the coils differ in size from each other. The receiver coils are connected in series, but their windings are wired with the opposite sense of rotation relative to each other. Energizing the transmitter coil generates a primary electromagnetic field that induces a first voltage and a second voltage in the corresponding receiver coils. Despite the asymmetry, the respective voltages cancel each other when no metal is present in the object investigated.